Huge fossil skull! 4 million year old fossil revealed [My rarest fossil yet - New Zealand]
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- This is one of my favourite fossil preps so far! It was really awesome working on this rare late-Miocene Pliocene fossil turtle and just goes to show that you never know what you will find!
The next step is to get it CT scanned and then into a public collection (museum) so that it can be studied further.
Total time to prep it was around 120 hours air scribe work and roughly 30 - 35 acid cycles.
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Thanks so much for watching everyone! This was a great project, I feel like it really has some personality. I've put together a linktree with some links and questions answered: linktr.ee/mamlambofossils
The truth of the matter is, that fossil is around 4,400 years old, fossilized in Noah's worldwide flood.
Instead of using water, next time God will use fire to cleanse the earth.
And sin shall be no more.
4 million huh. Whatever you say bud.
Do you ever sell fossils?
What is the name of the first musical track? I have heard it in a lot of videos recently. Reminds me of Happy Gilmore so I really like it.
Don't be a party pooper he has changed his mind before.@@earlysda
I really like that You always go with this scientific approach. Not damaging anything. 3D scans. You even left those tiny fossils to get more context of the find. Respect.
Thanks so much Artur!
Seeing the progress over the time put in one video is just a demonstration how much work can go into a fossil, the end result is mostly 👍 You really did an outstanding job preparing this turtle skull.
Thanks so much Linus! It's quite a bit of work bit I enjoy the end video 😃
Wow, wow, wow! What a beautiful specimen. My hand was cramping just watching you work. Keep the magic coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. You should be proud of your work. Thanks for sharing!!!! 😷⚒
My pleasure!! This one was quite a quick prep with the air scribe, the acid did most of the work!
Your patience is at another level.
It is fascinating to watch how you bring these fossils ‘to life’ so to speak. I will keep watching. Cheers from across the Tasman!
Thanks so much Gary! I'm hoping to visit Aus soon to have a look around your country.
That turtle skull came out so awesome looking. And I bet you are excited about all the little fossils you found with it to.
Thanks Kris! Yeah, so stoked about the entire specimen!
I was sat in a pub not long long ago with three experts in turtle phylogeny. That was an interesting night, watching them argue. They were talking scribble most of the time. That's what I call expert vocabularies, we use them in the medical field as well.
That is so awesome!! I'll need to get in touch with some turtle experts about this skull at some point
Must have been arguing dudes in wigs going in the woman's bathroom
Damn, you are a credit to New Zealand! Your discoveries are awesome. Keep it up and find a carnivore skull!
Thanks so much Steve!! Need to find that plesiosaur skull!
@@MamlamboFossils Will this piece be staying at home in your personal collection or is there a possibility you will be loaning/donating it to a museum of natural history there in New Zealand?
The urge to grab a bigger tool to speed the process up from just watching this goes to show your patience and dedication man. You must really love doing this💚
Also crazy to think we could be walking on fossils all the time, hidden in rocks, and we’d never know it. Thanks for sharing💚
Thanks for watching! You have to go slow with these fossils, this is a new species so deserves all the care I can give!
Been an incredible journey watching you work on this and it came out so beautifully! What a massive skull! Fantastic work, can't wait til the next big find :)
Who knows what the next one will be!
I remember the days when all you discovered were ammonites and crabs... your work table is much more interesting lately.
I have quite a bit going on!
This remains an awesome find and excellent prep-job, Morne! I can't imagine how it must feel to have discovered something like this! Just absolutely stunning, and, as you said, entirely unique for NZ! 😄
It is such a crazy beast!! I'm going to prep the bottom so I can see the bones of the palate better, it might tell us if it's closer to a Kemps turtle or a loggerhead
That is cool! Thanks for having the patients to do it right. Couple times watching the video I wanted you to just knock that part off!! Don't know as I could do all that work with such small tools. I guess I can be interested in paleontology, but I will never be a paleontologist.
Phew.. I was so relieved to see you extract it slowly! I thought for a second you were about to hammer and chisel it right there and then lol….
Ps what an INCREDIBLE find!!
I always take care with the fossils!
I do believe I have one also. Found it in a river a few years ago in California. Very unusual to look at. Has all the obvious signs of a fossilized turtle. Its just sitting in my house.
Oooh that would be awesome!! It's not impossible at all!
Have you checked the bedrock geology for your area?
@@wyattmiller9539I lived in Kern County for many years and the area I found it in is very well known to have fossilized whale, shark teeth, megalodon teeth, sea creatures but never have I seen a turtle like the one I have. The San Joaquin Valley was once an ancient inland sea ocean so its possible this turtle is a Leatherback..
I have been buying and selling and trading in fossils the biggest portion of my life. I also have found quite a few fossils nothing even close to what you just revealed. I am so glad that you are putting these videos out so people can see that they are real fossils inside rocks that have to be exposed. In order to see thim. And how much time it takes in order to see thim. You are very good at your craft. And I will be using your videos to help me sell some of the fossils that I have. Thank you so very much for your videos
Love this and respectful way you handle artifacts
Thanks so much!
You did an absolutely amazing job prepping that piece! It looks beautiful. 🤩Job well done! That turtle must have been absolutely enormous!
It must have been a monster!
wow ! the skull turned out fantastic thanks to your many hours of work on it. What a dream find. congratulations on the end result!
What you do in these videos is so fascinating. I don’t know how you can spot those little telltale clues to hidden fossils among all the heaps of stones, but you do, and you have developed the skills to free them from the matrix without destroying them and the contacts and knowledge to know what to do next. I am glad for you that you taken the step of going back to University to get degrees in bio and eventually paleontology. Wonderful!
Been singing the Hide and Seek song from childhood - since you showed us this, weeks ago. ""Come out, Come out where ever you are" should have made it "" come out, come what ever your are." Thank you.
Hahhaaha it couldn't hide forever!
I have uncovered several palm sized and smaller from a location on the shore of Lake Ontario and Lake Huron that have distinct shapes that are balanced showing what look like manufactured remains from some manufacturing process. Old rocks. I always enjoy beach walking for small or medium sized stones. Good work here.
Nice! I'm the same - always looking for cool rocks 😁
Palm size skull fossils?
Cant believe I walked right over this 😂
I know right? I grew up by Puget Sound, and likely saw rocks like this quite often, without a clue as to what they were!
Wow! Very cool. We see lots of fossils embedded into the walls in our limestone caves but I have never seen anyone do something like this!
Yay!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've looked in one cave but only found shells
Such a cool find! I love seeing what different things you've found everytime you post 😄
Your patience is incredible!
Thanks!
It's always a pleasure to see your work. I can't help but imagine what the world was like when these creatures were living.
When that beat first dropped! Yes, it's time lapse time!
Hahhaha got to get that music going for the prep 😄
This has to be one of the coolest vids I’ve stumbled across in a long time. When he first picked up the skull (rock, as I would have seen it) I thought it was some Hokey Pokey channel. It did not take long to figure out I was dead wrong. Well done!
That's epic mate! Amazing addition to the collection, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for that Moa skull for you.
It must be out there somewhere 😄
What an incredible find and excellent work revealing it too! Can't wait to find out how the CT scan went with it too! Congratulations!!!
Thanks so much!!
this is so amazing! any Museum would be glad to have it on display
Wow. That turned out amazing! Nice find and prep work. Thanks for sharing it with us.
My pleasure!
Great prep job! The beautiful release you were getting around 3:30 was outright therapeutic!
That was really nice separation!
That is so amazing! It is huge! And kind of eerie that it looks so real and it looks back at you when you are looking at it! So amazing! I cant believe its done! It looks fantastic and it is so rare to find a complete tirtle skull that large! Congratulations! First the penguin and then right after that the turtle skull! 🎉Congrats!🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much Lisa! I've been really lucky with finding some amazing fossils
That was so awesome! Thanks for sharing it.
My perfect Saturday night. Dinner done and now to settle in with Malabo uncovering another awesome fossil. Giddyup.
Hahhahaha that's awesome!! Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful work, great find, prep so beautifully done, bravo.
Thank you very much!
What a wonderful fossil prep and fine. Congratulations on such a great find. I love watching the hunts and prep work. Thanks for taking us on the adventures. Be blessed.
Thanks Francisca!
Its always amazing to see the big sea turtle species like the Leatherbacks and Loggerheads . The museum that gets that will really appreciate it!
I can't wait to see what species this is!
Waaaahhh ! Beautiful ! And you could tell there was something in it just looking at that rock !
I was really fortunate to spot it!
That’s really cool !!! Also amazing prep work you really can see every detail 🙂👍
Thanks so much Robin!
Wow never thought theres a channel like this. Thanks. Subscribed.
Wow such painstakingly slow and careful work to achieve such amazing results!
Hika ma! Wow that is phenomenal - so glad for you to have uncovered this absolute ripper of a fossil.
It's one of my favorites!
Wow amazing. What an eye you have. Anyone else would have just seen a rock and walked on by. I'm amazed it's so young in fossil terms and yet still encased in rock.
Wow this must of taken forever! Amazing work 👏
Dude that's incredible, I didn't think NZ had many fossils but now I'm going to go start digging 😊
Beautiful piece, the way it seems to look right back at you is amazing. Good job finding it an and even better one showing us all the prep and result👍🏼
It does look right at you! The eyes follow you like the Mona Lisa 😂
I kinda hope Professor Roger over at mud fossil university on youtube sees this. Great work.
It'd be really cool if you could get a cast or mold of it before you start working just to show how much material you have to remove.
So glad RUclips brought you up in my feed.
I heard you say "concretion" and my brain sighed with happiness.
That would be the best conversation starter to have sitting (securely) up on a shelf or maybe mounted to the wall
Great job cleaning that up.
Looks amazing 🤘🤘
Thanks so much!
So impressed by the amount of time and effort you spent on bringing this project through from beginning to end. Lots of investment and great reward. Glad you will be donating it to a place where all can benefit from its study. Amazing find!
The video almost takes more effort to put together 😂
@@MamlamboFossils Good point. We often forget about that aspect of RUclips. Doing the initial video plus all the editing, etc. that it takes to educate and entertain the viewers. Thanks for ALL your efforts!
Really nice that you are donating it to a museum for others to enjoy also . 😊
Also keeping my collection nice and small otherwise it's too much clutter!
Can you imagine the journey that fossil has been on, i wonder how far it has moved from its original place of death
I always wonder what it had seen when it came to the surface
That’s incredible, and so awesome to see the pre work completed. Great job 👏.
Super sweet awesome! Wow! That is an amazingly exciting piece for bone nerds, like myself.
Congratulations on your find. How exciting for you and wonderful to be doing something you love. All the best to you and your continued searches. Cheers!
Wow! Nice find! Looks awesome finished! 👍✌️💖
Wow i guessed turtle before i read your description, I must have paid attention after school
💀👍🙏 congratulations on the completion of the skull..it looks amazing.. the hole in the scull really reminds me of the shark bite.. who knows 🤯🤯
Thank you very much for sharing your hard work..
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It could well be!! Going to have to wait for the experts to weigh in 😀
Spectacular, sir. Thank you for sharing the journey of discovery with us!
(Congrats on 400K subs!)
Thanks so much Valiant!
You found Toothless. That’s probably worth a few bucks
I totally nailed this skull, I knew it was a Turtle skull as soon as I saw it. It's huge too! The damage to the skull could be the reason for the animal's death, if not for penetration into the brain, the blow itself could have caused the death. It would have had to have been a significant blow to damage it in the first place. Did that tooth like fossil in the other piece come from that location?
Thank you for using a scribe and not being one of the brutes with a hammer
Great job! Such a cool find and an amazing prep!
Thanks Kirsten!
yes it's so cool 🐢 thanks for letting us come along with your adventures 👍
My pleasure Mick!
I WAS GOING TO JUST CHECK THIS VID OUT & ENDED UP WATCHING
THE WHOLE THING, REALLY COOL STUFF !
I found a turtle scull on the street in Bklyn. NY, I thought it was a bear skull at first, it was twice the size of that one.
Great find.
That is so weird! Good find though!
Brilliant your fossil videos are so good. I wish I could match your skill with the prep and the camera work. So a very rare fossil. Will be interesting to see whether the scan shows more bone. Very entertaining love watching your videos.
Ah thanks Alan, that's very kind of you. I learn something new everything when I do these preps and videos 😄
That turned out lovely
Thanks bro! It was a really fun fossil!
Well don . What an end result . I enjoy your videos when you show the whole poses . A great find 👍😄
Thanks!
Love it!
Beautiful!!! Lots of hard work but so rewarding I'm sure
It's very satisfying seeing it emerge like this!
You have the relatives of Rocky,'s Cuff and Link! Must have been a great swimmer all the way from Philadelphia!
Good work...
The world is blessed to have you revealing these fossils to the world! You honor them, and you honor us! All the best to you!
That's an incredibly interesting skull. It would be fun to see a mock-up shell with it to see how big the animal was. Well done video--with the find on the beach through the amazing reveal in the end,
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That carapace must have been car bonnet sized!
My skepticism went away fairly quickly. Amazing video and Respect sent.
Thanks!
Always fascinated by rocks since being a kid. Ive come across identical oddities in some rocks of passing by and just looking . Couldn't keep them for I've been known to be a rock hoarder once and not my home, lol. Every now and then I sneak small ones in. Broke 1 rock in half and had a hollow sphere with copper like structure of a falling star tail inside. With this video here Ill be sneaking the next similar rock once I come across. Rocks are just fascinating or COOL OF THE WHAT IS INSIDE OF THEM ROCKS !
Sounds like you've found some cool rocks!!
You did great!! Looks so good and indeed human like. On to the next one.
Thanks Geja!
You're really finding some impressive specimens. Continued success.
nice sharing. impressive.
So cool to watch the process and see the finished skull! Thanks!
My pleasure Karen!
Very, very cool! Stoked for you 💪
Dankie man!
Riki Tiki Cool, thank you for posting.
My pleasure!
I'm glad there are people with your patience to do this, or it would get done with a sledge.
Not the sledgehammer!!
Spectacular. I am so happy for you!
WOW that is beautiful! I would LOVE to see the progression of the fossil after each acid bath 😮
That was an absolute amazing thing to see progress. Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing the passion you have
Thanks Flea!
Absolutely amazing prep!!!!
Amazing! That turtle had to be huge! Good spotting!
Skull is always right💀 Nice loot! 👍
Awesome skull, amazing prep!
Thanks so much! It was a really fun prep!
I live in an area where we have some big snapping turtles and it was fun to see the size comparison of yours next to your head!!
Those snapping turtles look prehistoric and I've seen some huge ones!
Man that was awesome! Great work to.
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Supercool. You have incredible patience.
it's really a interesting find! Love it and hope you can find more rare fossils in the future :)
Me too! Thanks so much!
It is literally a skull. I saw it when it was on the ground and you were handling it. Great find!